
89 - Cork Wars
The WW2 Podcast
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The German Industrial Sabotage of the American Cork Industry
Francis Fallen: Could there be any truth in the Germans trying to noble the American cork cork industry at the with this September 1940. The FBI already by then by the fall of 1940 had been tracking several Nazi sabotage rings including one based in Long Island New York that they later arrested months after the Crown Court fire. They found plans for bombing electric power stations and train lines and some factories as well so it was a legitimate fear, he says.
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